Dennis Stock: Master Photographer

A beauty contest for cattle at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, 1965. Impressed by his photographs in Life(itals), Robert Capa invited the young photographer to join the Magnum Photography Cooperative in 1951.
Dennis Stock / Magnum

Cattle Call
A beauty contest for cattle at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, 1965. Impressed by his photographs in Life, Robert Capa invited the young photographer to join the Magnum Photography Cooperative in 1951. In the sixty years that followed, Stock documented the changing American landscape, and captured some of the nation's most beloved celebrities in iconic portraits.

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